Sidewalk snow-sweeper



J. PANTALEONE AND M. ZODA.

SIDEWALK SNOW SWEEPER.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 5, 1920.

1,393,640. Patented Oct. 11, 1921.

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.UNHTED STATES JOSEPH PA NTALEQNE AND lvnicnantzona, or 'rnnnroiv, newJERSEY.

SIDEWALK SNOW-SVJEEPER.

' To all 1117mm it may concern and hirer-Linn Zena, both citizens ofthe,

United States, and both residents of Trenton, in the county of Mercerand State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved SidewalkSnow-Sweeper, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Our invention relates to a street cleaner, and aims to pro ;-'ide .adevice of this nature, more mrticularly adapted for use in connectionwith cleaning the sidewalks and streets of snow, but not necessarilylimited to this adaption.

it is well appreciated that numerous devices have been proposed forremoving foreign substances, such as snow, etc, from side walks andstreets. These devices have for the most part been in the nature of apower driven scraping means, which necessarily involved considerableexpense in operation, .aside from the fact that the foreign substanceswere not, for the most part, efiiciently removed.

A further detect experienced in connection with devices of this naturehas been that the vehicle, or similar device utilized tor supporting thecleaning element has usually been supported by wheels, which wheelsnecesp'arily moved through the substance to be moved, rendering themovement of the vehicle or similar device very diificult.

llith this in view we have constructed a street cleaner, whichaforestated is particularly adapted for use in connection with snowremoval, but not necessarily limited to this adaption, and whichprimarily, may be manually operated, so that the expense incident todevices of this type heretofore experienced may be eliminated.

A further object of our invention is the construction of a device ofthis nature which shall effectively clean the entire surface over whichthe same is moved.

A still further object of our invention is the construction of a cleanerin which the supporting medium forming a part of the device will move inthe path which has been cleaned by the'cleaning element, aside fromcleaning the surface over which it is moved moving the foreign matter toone side.

Further objects of our invention will appear in the annexedspecification and draw- Specification of Letters Patent. 'Pafagnted()Qt, 11, Application filed November 5, 1920 Serial No. 422,106.

ings, which latter illustrate one practical embodiment :of ourinvention, and in which Figure l is a plan view, and I 1 Fig. 2 is aside view of a cleaner constructed in accordance with our invention.

In these views, the reference numeral 5 in- .licates the handle, whichmay conveniently be provided to permit of a manual movement of the frame6, which is attached to the lower end of the handle.

A rotatable member, conveniently including a shaft 7, mounting radiallyextending bristles .8. is now provided, and positioned in advance of themain portion of the frame (3, by being mounted in bearings 9conveniently forming an integral extended part of the frame 6.

It will also be seen that the body of the brush 8, lies at an angle tothe path of travel of the cleaner, thus removing any foreign substance,with which it contacts, all to one side of the cleaner. This dispositionof the brush is accomplished by extending the frame, as has beenindicated by the reference numeral 10, to project beyond the op positsportion. 11 of the frame. these extended portions of the frame,terminate as atorestatcd. in bearings 9, and it is to he noted thatthese bearing portions carry the shaft 7 in such a manner that the brushwill be moved forward at an angleto the direction of travel of thecleaner.

Supporting wheels 12 are rotatably secured to the frame 6, and serve byany suitable transmitting mechanism, such as 13, to

direct the rotation of the shaft 7 forming part of the brush. Thus, wehave provided a cleaner, the cleaning element of which Wlll primarilymove in front of the supporting medium, thus providing a clear path forthe latter, and permitting of its more ready movement.

Also the simple construction provided will permit of the effectualmanual operation of this cleaner, and will serve to transmit anymovement on the part of the supporting wheels 12 to the cleaner element.

In this connection it is to be noted that a secondary supportingelement, conveniently including a wheel l l may be provided to one sideof the frame 6, and adjacent the ex tended portion 10 thereof, for moreevenly balancing the weight of the entire device.

It will also'be appreciated that particles Both of of snow may-cling tothe bristles of the brush, and be thrown back uponthe surface cleaned,thereby, and to eliminate this, the outer ends of the extendingportions10 and 11 of the frame mount a scraper 15, adapted to contact with thebristles 8 to effectually remove any adhering particles of snowtherefrom; V r

' Obviously numerous modifications of structure might readily beresorted to Without in the least departing from the spirit of 'ourinvention, which we claim as-:-

vA cleaner including a frame, non-alined wheels mounting and balancingsaid frame, 7

ing with said first-mentioned bevel gears,

sprocket wheels associated with said lastmentioned bevel gears, furthersprocket wheels associated with each of said nonahned wheels, anddriving chains connecting 7 said sprocket wheels adapted to drive saidcleaning element on both ends.

JOSEPH PANTALEONE. MICHAEL ZODA.

